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AG Institute Australia - SA Division Forum: Producing more food with fewer resources
Producing more food with fewer resources: the opportunities for agriculture, businesses and those who advise them
The Ag Institute of Australia is delighted to present a forum of key importance to Australian agriculture, agribusinesses and those who advise them on Tuesday 29 November 2011.
Future food production from agriculture faces many challenges. Pressures from competition for arable land and water resources, energy costs, access to water and climate variability are increasing. We must produce more food and deliver it to more people, locally and internationally, while protecting the environment that supports food production. Markets are demanding more food of higher nutritional quality, while agricultural input resources are becoming scarcer. Government responses to energy and climate issues, such as the carbon tax, add yet another dimension. Australian agriculture, with its dependence on fossil fuel energy, will be challenged increasingly by these changing factors. We are all connected to our arable land, and our whole natural environment, through food. We need to ensure that farming and its service industries remain profitable and ecologically sustainable.
This affects those in finance, succession planning, legal professions and real estate as well as those in agri-consulting, commodity trading, agribusiness and government policy.
This Forum features speakers who will illustrate the threats and challenges and also some of the potential responses and opportunities. Together we can respond positively if we have the facts. This
is your chance to get those facts.
Speakers:
- Mike Stephens is AIA National President and Board Chairman
- Brian Keating Director of the National Research Flagship on Sustainable Agriculture within the CSIRO
- Michael Raupach CSIRO Fellow at CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research
- Wayne Meyer Professor of Natural Resources at the Uni of Adelaide
- Rick Roush Dean of Melbourne School of Land and Environment
- Mick Keogh ED of Australia Farm Institute
- Geoff Thomas Consultant
When: Tuesday 29th Nov 9:15 - 16:00
Where: SARDI Plant Research Centre Waite Campus, Urrbrae, South Australia
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